Gerry McGovern3d ago

The hidden beauty of vibe coding

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

interview: Codestrap founders say we need to dial down the hype and sort through the mess

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@gerrymcgovern Tired of explaining that more lines of code does not equal more productivity. I don't think there will be a reckoning, they will expect us to get used to cloud outages instead and just accept 'the robot ate my homework' as an excuse.
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